STAR WARS: EPISODE I: JEDI POWER BATTLES ARTICLES

September 10, 2008 - The same month principle photography finished on Return of the Jedi, winding his legendary saga down for the foreseeable future, George Lucas approached video game giant Atari with a proposal. The Atari 2600, launched just five months after Star Wars premiered, owned the relatively new home video game market. Lucas wanted to diversify his company's already-impressive portfolio. It was a perfect fit. LucasFilm Games split off from the main company in May 1982, and immediately started developing for the more advanced Atari 5200 and Atari 800 consoles... none of which were based on the Star Wars trilogy. Exclusive license to produce Star Wars games would be sold to outside companies for years to come.

October 4, 2000 - Not a terrible title by any means, LucasArts has improved on their past mistakes admirably in their attempt to make a better game. They just haven't quite figured out how do it all the way yet. A good one the first couple of sessions but an eventual disappointment, Power Battles is probably best described by our wise and powerful Master Yoda. Who once said, "Do or do not. There is no try." Too true little green guy, too true.

September 29, 2000 - The Dreamcast version of Jedi Power Battles involves more than just graphical changes. The developers have pinpointed a few issues involving gameplay in the PSX version and have gone about addressing these.